Chapter Summaries

Sif and Volstagg returned from Vanaheim with prisoners, only to find Brunhilde executing them as Malekith’s failed infiltration turned into a Curse Warrior attack. Loki rushed to the prison after Frigga revealed that her original fate had her dying that day, while Hela and Frigga vowed to oppose the Ancient Gods who controlled Ragnarok.

• Heimdall opened the Bifrost for Sif and Volstagg, who brought captured Vanaheim rebels back to Asgard.
• Brunhilde declared that Asgard would no longer keep prisoners and killed a dwarf, prompting Malekith to activate the Dark Elf prisoners’ Curse Gems and abandon his infiltration plan.
• Frigga sensed Curse Warriors in the prison, and Loki agreed to face them while Hela encouraged him to earn more honor.
• Frigga told Loki that this was the day she died in her original fate line, so he took the Casket of Ancient Winters and hurried to the prison.
• Hela and Frigga joined forces and resolved to challenge the Ancient Gods behind Ragnarok and seek power across other universes.
• Loki arrived at the prison as Brunhilde fought the Curse Warriors and unleashed the Casket’s frost power.

Loki stopped Brunhilde from destroying the captured Curse Warriors, and Hela ordered the Asgardians to pursue Malekith after they uncovered his allies. Malekith joined forces with Thanos and Laufey, while Heisenberg prepared to pressure the Frost Giants and confront the growing alliance.

• Loki froze and captured the Curse Warriors, then brought them to Hela and Frigga so scholars could search their memories for clues about Malekith.
• Hela ordered Loki to prepare three Berserker battalions for war, while Frigga reassured him that she would not die as fate had predicted.
• Frigga scolded Thor for swearing, and he left in confusion after she ordered him to copy Asgardian poems.
• Malekith fled his hiding place and asked his adjutant to investigate Asgard and find potential allies.
• Hela told Heisenberg that Malekith had fled Svartalfheim and left traces near Thanos's forces, so Heisenberg ordered troops to pressure Laufey and hasten an alliance between the Frost Giants and Malekith.
• Malekith persuaded Thanos that their forces and Laufey's should unite against Asgard, and Thanos agreed.

Fiona fought Laufey during Hela’s invasion of Jotunheim, while Loki protected the Asgardian army and earned its admiration. Thanos and Malekith learned that the invasion had begun and set out to meet Laufey, whom they considered a future ally.

• Hela led the Asgardian army and its Kryptonian allies through the Bifrost to invade Jotunheim.
• Fiona intercepted Laufey and fought him, while Hela ordered the Asgardians to attack the Frost Giants.
• Hela accused Laufey of allying with Thanos and the Dark Elves, but Laufey denied contacting Thanos.
• Fiona shattered Laufey’s axe, and Loki transformed the battlefield’s flying debris into snow to protect the warriors, earning their admiration.
• Thanos and Malekith learned that Asgard had invaded Jotunheim and left to meet Laufey before he was killed.

Thanos allied with Malekith and sent his forces to support the attack on Asgard, while Heisenberg and Frigga prepared for the coming assault. Thanos’s fleet arrived at Jotunheim and joined the battle, leaving Asgardian and Frost Giant forces fighting under heavy bombardment.

• Thanos agreed to support Malekith’s campaign against Asgard with troops, Black Order members, and flagship cannons, while Malekith promised him the Reality Stone as spoils.
• Frigga and Heisenberg watched Fiona fight Laufey, then agreed to reinforce Asgard’s divine barrier and use the Reality Stone despite its side effects.
• The battle on Jotunheim continued for about forty minutes as Asgardian and Frost Giant casualties mounted, with Heisenberg viewing the deaths as a source of Origin Matter.
• Thanos’s forces arrived on Jotunheim, and Frigga left to prepare while Heisenberg watched the fleet’s vanguard descend.
• General Glaive ordered an attack from the Ebony Maw, but Asgardian shields and Heimdall’s Bifrost countered the fleet’s opening barrage as the ground battle resumed.

Frigga used the Reality Stone to swap Asgard and Alfheim, tricking Malekith into invading a false Asgard while Thanos’s attack struck Alfheim. As Malekith realized the trap, Heisenberg appeared before the Dark Elves and announced their deaths.

• On Jotunheim, Hela sent Loki to fight the Frost Giants while she and Thor attacked the Black Order, whose forces surrounded Thor and battled Hela’s Undead Legion.
• Frigga used the Reality Stone to create a convincing false Asgard and exchange the locations of Asgard and Alfheim, causing Thanos’s planet-killing attack to hit Alfheim.
• Malekith arrived in the false Asgard, ordered his troops to invade, and killed a grieving woman before the illusion dissolved around him.
• Malekith recognized that he and his forces were trapped on Alfheim, while Frigga returned to the true Asgard and learned that the king had gone after him.
• The Dark Elves discovered they were back in Alfheim, and Heisenberg appeared on a throne and welcomed them home before declaring that they would die.

Heisenberg watched Frigga’s trap for Malekith unfold, then destroyed the false Asgard and annihilated the Dark Elf army. After mocking Malekith until he stood up to fight, Heisenberg defeated him, leaving Malekith to affirm his name and identity as the last king of the Dark Elves.

• Heisenberg reflected on his growing boredom and decided to let his warriors handle Malekith while Frigga prepared a trap.
• Frigga summoned Heisenberg to the false Asgard, where he watched Malekith’s bombardment destroy the imitation city and its soulless inhabitants.
• Heisenberg dissolved the false Asgard and erased the Dark Elf army, leaving Malekith isolated and devastated.
• Heisenberg taunted Malekith with mocking nicknames until Malekith regained his resolve, raised his spear, and faced him as a king.
• Heisenberg transformed into his Abyssal Walker armor and fought Malekith, defeating him in a single clash.
• Kneeling in defeat, Malekith declared that he was the last king of the Dark Elves and their final hope.

Heisenberg killed Malekith, displayed his body on the moon, and ordered Hela’s forces to capture Corvus and Proxima alive. As the battle continued, Loki faced his biological father Laufey, reflecting on their lost chance for a relationship.

• Heisenberg sent Malekith’s corpse to the moon, where astronomers discovered it alongside over a hundred towering chairs.
• Thanos learned that Malekith and his forces had vanished and ordered Ebony Maw to recall Corvus from Asgard.
• Heisenberg contacted Hela, explained the situation, and ordered her to capture Corvus and Proxima Midnight alive.
• Hela rallied Asgard’s soldiers to unleash their powers, then assigned Fiona to capture Proxima while she handled Corvus.
• Fiona withdrew from her fight with Laufey, leaving Loki to face his biological father.
• Laufey praised Loki’s life under Heisenberg, while Loki wondered whether his father had regretted abandoning him.

Loki confronted Laufey on Jotunheim, convinced him to surrender after promising him an honorable final battle, and returned him to the battlefield. Meanwhile, Death visited Heisenberg to discuss his interference with Thanos, then invited him to join a group chat with her, Galactus, and the Void.

• Laufey admitted he had failed Loki as a father, while Loki explained that serving Heisenberg gave him purpose and a chance to earn recognition.
• Laufey refused to surrender at first and attacked Loki, who used spatial power to trap him beneath Jotunheim's mountains.
• Laufey agreed to surrender to Loki but requested one last honorable battle on the battlefield, and Loki accepted.
• Death appeared before Heisenberg and complained that his interference had disrupted her wager with Eternity involving Thanos.
• Death said she had come to meet Heisenberg as a newly arrived multiversal power and invited him to join her Twitter group chat with Galactus and the Void.

Death introduced Heisenberg to a multiversal Twitter group, where he met cosmic powers who treated universe-destroying fights as casual entertainment. After Death teased him and invited him to choose a side in their factional rivalry, she added him to her own group, Simp Paradise, where several versions of Thanos immediately challenged him.

• Death kissed Heisenberg to activate Twitter, showed him Gannata’s post, and invited him to join the multiversal group.
• Heisenberg accepted Death’s friend request and entered the group, where Galactus, Eternity, Infinity, Annihilation, and others argued about their rival factions and proposed fights.
• Death explained the factions’ rivalry and asked Heisenberg to support her, but he declined to choose a side.
• Death revealed that Eternity had imprisoned someone in another universe and offered to take Heisenberg there, but he refused and watched her leave.
• Death heard Heisenberg call her a freak, teased him over Twitter, and pulled him into Simp Paradise, where multiple Thanoses challenged him.

Loki fought Laufey on Jotunheim and learned that his father wanted him to defeat and kill him so he could rule the Frost Giants. Meanwhile, Fiona and Hela captured Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight alive, and the chapter ended with Laufey dying after Loki shattered his heart.

• Laufey challenged Loki to fight him hand to hand, and Loki transformed into his Frost Giant form and revealed his resentment over being abandoned and rejected.
• Fiona fought Corvus Glaive, tore him from his spear, and beat him unconscious before learning from Heisenberg that his life was bound to the weapon.
• Hela restrained Proxima Midnight with Blades of Death, and she and Fiona sent both captives to Asgard's prison through the Bifrost.
• Thor rallied the Asgardians to continue the battle as Loki realized he had fatally struck Laufey.
• Laufey told Loki that his death would force the Frost Giants to accept defeat and entrusted his people and legacy to his son.

Loki defeated Laufey on Jotunheim and turned the surrendering Frost Giants against Thanos's Legion, while Heisenberg promised to let Loki revive his father. Heisenberg then joined Thor's battle before returning to Asgard, where Hela and Fiona awaited him with two blood-covered figures.

• Heisenberg arrived beside Loki and Laufey's corpse, then urged Loki to wait until the Frost Giants had surrendered before seeking Laufey's revival.
• Loki declared himself the victor, persuaded the Frost Giants to lay down their weapons, and ordered Asgardian and Frost Giant troops to attack Thanos's Legion.
• Loki asked Heisenberg to accept the Frost Giants as his warriors, and Heisenberg agreed to let Loki return to Asgard with Laufey's body and revive him there.
• Loki departed through the Bifrost, and Heisenberg erased a vast section of Thanos's Legion with a single punch before meeting Thor on the battlefield.
• Heisenberg told Thor to protect his soldiers and lead the battle carefully, then returned to Asgard, where Hela and Fiona stood beside two blood-covered figures.

Heisenberg imprisoned Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, directed Asgard to continue the war on Jotunheim, and set his sights on Celestial Ego and the universe’s empires. After Ghanata asked him for help, he learned that the Phoenix Force was approaching her universe and considered going to confront it.

• Fiona beat Proxima Midnight after she defended Thanos, and Hela asked Heisenberg to let Asgard join the Divine Kingdom system.
• Heisenberg ordered Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight sent to the Divine Kingdom’s prison, assigned Hela to coordinate the Jotunheim war, and named Celestial Ego as the next target.
• Heisenberg asked Hela to invite Frigga to Asgard and sent Fiona to take the prisoners to Mogo’s amusement park.
• Ghanata added Heisenberg as a friend and asked him for help, but he first misunderstood her trouble and denied responsibility for it.
• Heisenberg read the group messages and learned that the Phoenix was nearing Earth in Ghanata’s universe, prompting Death to recommend him as a strong helper.
• Heisenberg asked Ghanata about the Phoenix fragment and said he might visit if it was suitable, then complained about his new group name.

Heisenberg arranged for Loki to inherit the Sea God's power and let Jane Foster return to Earth. The chapter then introduced an old man called Old Ghost, whose steel claws emerged as Mexican thieves attacked him.

• Heisenberg told Frigga that Loki would inherit the Sea God's runes and become Asgard's Sea God.
• Heisenberg asked Frigga to govern Asgard while he traveled to another universe to learn more about Phoenix.
• Jane Foster met Heisenberg, complained about Thor, and received permission to leave Asgard for Earth.
• Old Ghost woke in his limousine in Mexico when thieves began removing its wheels.
• Old Ghost confronted the thieves, revealed steel claws between his fingers, and was beaten to the ground.

James Howlett fought off car thieves who threatened his rented Chevrolet, then drove to a motel and continued working as a ride-share driver despite his injuries. Meanwhile, Heisenberg arrived in 2029 New York, destroyed the mechanical guards that branded him a mutant criminal, and announced himself to the city.

• James Howlett endured a beating, then fought back and killed most of the punks after they threatened his car.
• James Howlett kept the last Adamantium bullet in his pocket, repaired the Chevrolet, and paid for a motel room and a rented suit.
• James Howlett forced bullets from his body, put on the rented clothes, and drove toward the Mexico border to take a ride request.
• Heisenberg arrived in 2029 New York and realized he had reached the wrong universe.
• Mechanical guards identified Heisenberg as a suspected mutant criminal, so he destroyed them and rose to the top of a building.
• Heisenberg introduced himself, then shattered more than thirty helicopters and several hundred mechanical guards.

Old Wolf tried to avoid Gabriella’s crisis but learned that Donald Pierce and the Alkali Genetic Modification Research Institute were hunting her and X-23. After armed forces pursued him to his farm, he found Professor X calmly relaxing under beach umbrellas as an army let him pass.

• Old Wolf refused to tell Donald Pierce where Gabriella had gone, then discovered Pierce was the security director of the Alkali Genetic Modification Research Institute.
• Old Wolf learned that Pierce knew he was hiding Charles Xavier and rushed to take his boat and flee with his old friend.
• At the border, armed personnel identified Old Wolf as Wolverine and tried to stop him, so he stabbed one of them and drove away.
• The U.S. military pursued Old Wolf toward his farm but let him walk through their ranks after surrounding the property with tens of thousands of troops.
• Old Wolf entered his yard and found Professor X enjoying a foot massage beneath beach umbrellas while raising a glass of juice to him.

Heisenberg terrorized New York and the United States with reality-altering powers after the authorities mistook him for a mutant criminal. He ended the chapter by replacing the Statue of Liberty with an enormous Marilyn Monroe statue, leaving a female agent to marvel at how lifelike it looked.

• After Heisenberg destroyed the robots and helicopters sent to capture him, negotiator James Strauss brought him a cigarette, and Heisenberg demanded a female negotiator and bourbon.
• Heisenberg erased the soldiers’ weapons and equipment, reshaped the rooftop into a party space, and killed a female agent when her Adamantium syringe could not pierce his toes.
• Heisenberg sent the Eiffel Tower crashing upside down into the White House lawn, then made America’s satellites, space stations, space-based weapons, and nuclear arsenal disappear.
• When officials identified him as Apocalypse, Heisenberg corrected them and said his name was Heisenberg.
• Heisenberg flew to the former Statue of Liberty site and rebuilt the remains as a giant Marilyn Monroe statue, which a female agent described as lifelike.

Heisenberg embraced the role of a self-proclaimed Sun God in the Logan universe, forcing a Manhattan nightclub into an extravagant party before setting out to meet Charles Xavier in Mexico. He left with the president’s daughter, while the president and Congress were left scrambling to respond to his impossible power.

• Heisenberg dragged a female agent into a Manhattan nightclub, made her dance, killed the security chief and guards, and silenced the guests before ordering them to resume the party.
• The United States government took control of the nightclub, and the party continued until after three in the morning while the agent danced for five hours.
• Heisenberg told an official to arrange a reception in Mexico, killed him when he offered a plane, and summoned the president and Congress from their underground shelter in Washington.
• Heisenberg demanded that the president give his daughter to him as a maid, then vanished with her and headed for Mexico.
• An official reported that Heisenberg had already appeared in New Mexico and taken the governor’s young wife, prompting the president and Congress to panic.

Heisenberg arrived at a Mexican farmhouse with the president’s daughter and the Governor of New Mexico’s wife, then revealed his powers to Taliban and transformed Taliban’s skin so he could live normally in sunlight. He ordered Taliban and the two women to clean the courtyard for the many people he expected to arrive.

• Heisenberg brought the two women to the farmhouse, where their screams startled Taliban as he washed Charles’s urine-soaked underwear.
• Heisenberg introduced himself as a god, calmed the women, and summoned clothing racks for them to change into suitable outfits.
• Heisenberg found Taliban hiding under a workbench, disarmed him, and used water to clean him and replace his clothes.
• Heisenberg offered Taliban ordinary skin, and Taliban prayed to the Sun God before his pale skin changed to a normal Asian complexion.
• Heisenberg told Taliban to clear the courtyard with the two women, then ordered them to change into maid outfits for the work.

Heisenberg had Taliban clean up Professor X, then restored the old professor’s lucidity with sunlight and heard his plea to protect young mutants. Charles discovered he had seventeen years left to live, and Heisenberg ordered his people to find the girl in New Mexico and bring Logan back.

• Heisenberg told Taliban to bathe Professor X and move him out of the water tower, while he rested in the yard.
• A large U.S. service team arrived with food, attendants, and an opera troupe, and Heisenberg made the sun rise early for the gathering.
• Heisenberg used a ray of sunlight to restore Professor X’s mind, and Charles spoke about mutantkind’s near extinction and a young mutant girl in New Mexico.
• Charles offered to follow Heisenberg’s wishes in exchange for protecting the young mutants, then learned he had seventeen years left to live.
• Heisenberg accepted Charles’s plea and ordered his people to find the girl, whom he identified as possibly X-23, and bring Logan back.

Wolverine arrived at Heisenberg’s heavily militarized compound and was forced into an embarrassing bath while Gabriella tried to find help for Laura. After Donald Pierce and a group of mutant women found them, Laura agreed to meet the mysterious powerful man who had demanded to see her.

• Wolverine met Professor X at Heisenberg’s compound, where attendants stripped and bathed him while Heisenberg mocked him.
• Gabriella took Laura from the motel to avoid the company’s people, but Laura sensed someone approaching and raised her claws.
• Donald Pierce arrived kneeling and crying, explaining that the company and its research facility were shut down and that powerful authorities were searching for Laura.
• The president of the New Mexico Mutant Protection Association reassured Laura that she and Gabriella would be safe and said Wolverine and Professor X were with the important man who wanted to meet her.
• Laura chose to trust the mutant women, and Gabriella agreed to go with them despite vowing to protect Laura.
• The women brought Laura and Gabriella to a decorated van, where the president warned them that the powerful man had nearly destroyed New York and caused worldwide turmoil.